What are your favourite movies?

[TheSkronkDonkey]

Another one is "Minority Report". Slick, stylish, loaded with substance. It's a brilliant love letter to cinema and a beautiful exploration of the concept of projection. The photography and visual effects are wonderful. See, it begins underwater, like a precog, and has a very murky, grainy, washed out look, like a precog vision. Just as the precogs project into the future, so film projects .... and "Minority Report" is a specific projection of a possible future. The lead character played by Tom Cruise is also shown "editing" images to work out a narrative for a murder -- a lot like a film editor pieces together images to tell a story (to stress this point, there are even a pair of scissors as one of the images that Cruise is shuffling through). Pretty deep filmmaking, yet smooth enough to be enjoyed as entertainment, too.

[sesame]

Talking of Minority Report, which I obviously relished,
how about Tom Cruis's Mission Impossible packed with action and wit? Same can be said about Enemy of the state starring Gene Hackman & Will Smith. Smoking!!
Again, moving to a Japanese scenario with Tom Cruise, The Last Samurai, thats what I'm talking about.
Magnificent movie making. Think of the Valour, the ideal, the ancient Samurai code... it actually captures your imagination for a while.
Talking of samurai code, did you see Ghost Dog with Forest Whitaker? Its about a professional assassin who is very philosophical and follows the samurai code. Its a good film, watch it.

[Bionca]

Holy Grail, Meaning of Life, Life of Brian (Monty Python)

super movies that I have seen over and over and over that still make me laugh.... and full of often quoted line too.

[TheSkronkDonkey]

Hmmm.

They were reasonably well made, but "Enemy of the State", "Mission Impossible" and "The Last Samurai" are fairly obvious films, in many ways.

Just my opinion.

The Monty Python movies are awesome. Cannot be touched!

[sesame]

Meaning of Life_ monty python. I saw that one; it was really funny.
Have any of you ever used Python?

Its a Obj-oriented programming language, integrated into linux command line, used in Poser software, extensively used in numerous websites in so many ways. Now, you must be thinking that I am nuts talking about a OOPs Prog language?

(scary tech data!!)
Do you know what inspired the authors of this open-source language to name it "Python"? None other than Monty Python's Flying Circus! Yes. Believe it or not.

[Arato]

12 Monkeys
Blade Runner - befor the directors cut
Excalibur
Big Lebowski
Blow
Shaun of the Dead
Black Hawk Down
Animal House
Caddyshack
Dr.Strangelove
Grandma's Boy
The Lake House

and oh yes Goonies

[ila]

Originally Posted by Bionca

Holy Grail, Meaning of Life, Life of Brian (Monty Python)

super movies that I have seen over and over and over that still make me laugh.... and full of often quoted line too.

Excellent choices. Anything from Monty Python is absolutely hilarious.
I generally like comedy movies especially when Leslie Nielsen is in them.

[GRH]

Originally Posted by sesame

...did you see Ghost Dog with Forest Whitaker?...

While I haven't seen that particular film, Forest Whitaker was simply amazing in "The Last King of Scotland." He plays a Ugandan dictator amazingly well.

As for most of the films listed thus far, I must say that I would agree with many of them. I don't think anyone has listed a film that I haven't enjoyed on some level, and a very few films listed succeed as high art. I suspect that I am akin to TheSkronkDonkey in my assessment of film, as I can be somewhat snobbish in regards to what separates a fun film from a truly great one. I have spent the past several years of my life collecting some of the critical darlings, such as the AFI Hundred Greatest List and certain other foreign lists. I have my favorite films based on categories...Some films suceed as great films, others succeed because they're just cool, and some succeed because they really touch me on some sort of emotionally resonating level. It is this last category of film that garners multiple, repeat viewings, and these films have been my most influential, obsessive works, though they are not all necessarily high art by any means.

Star Wars I-VI (More emphasis on the original trilogy by far)
Legends of the Fall
Titanic
Donnie Darko
Lord of the Rings Trilogy
Thin Red Line
Schindler's List
Hero
Citizen Kane
2001 Space Odyssey
Vanilla Sky

My mind is a bit blank at the moment, I'll probably think of some more later, but that's a good start of films that I really love and have seen many, many times over.

[LoverofShemales]

Godfather 1 and 2
Aliens 1 and 2
The Shawshank Redemption
A River Runs Through It
Jaws
The Natural
Unforgiven
Gangs of New York
Pans Labyrinth

And tons of indie films that don't get a lot of recognition.

[jimnaseum]

Probably King Kong, Wizard of Oz, all the big budget hits.

FUNKY FAVES
Kiss me Deadly (1955) Ralph Meeker as PI one step above scum he investigates
Drugstore Cowboy-whats his name...
Eraserhead-weird weird weird
Golden Voyage of Sinbad- Caroline Munro & Harry Harryhausen
La Belle et la Bête- the coolest
The Pledge- Jack Nicholson vs Serial pedophile
Ninth Gate- Johnny Depp vs Devil

[Attis]

My favourite movies :
Sissi (1-2-3)
Narnia
Matrix
Artificial Intelligence
Equilibrium
Starwar

[daloota]

My favourite movies are Sunshine and Haute Tension/High Tension.
Haute Tension is a French Psychothriller,the best ever^^

Blockbuster like Hancock, X-Men, Hulk and so on are also nice.
Because sometimes I like movies to watch where you do not use your Brain